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After the pre-race show, Squier said goodbye to NASCAR on TNT in this speech: Hello everyone, I'm Ken Squier. And as the engines have fired at New Hampshire, I remind you that this is the final NASCAR broadcast for Turner Sports. I was the play-by-play announcer for TBS for 18 years. Beginning in the very first year of NASCAR coverage, 1983.
Longtime NASCAR announcer Ken Squier died Wednesday. He was 88. Squier is the most recognizable voice and face in NASCAR television history. He was the announcer for the 1979 Daytona 500, the race ...
Ken Squier, founder of Barre's Thunder Road and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Wednesday evening. He was 88.
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The cars of Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison from the 1979 Daytona 500 in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Ken Squier: "Stand by, stand by for a photo finish. Two of the greatest fiddling here, fidgeting with first place, passing some of the stragglers; this is the last lap.
As a result, NASCAR's relationship with CBS, its oldest television partner, concluded at the end of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. While the 2000 Pepsi 400 was the last Winston Cup Series race to be broadcast on CBS, their true final NASCAR race in general was the Craftsman Truck Series ' Chevy Silverado 200 , broadcast on July 15, 2000.
[19] [20] The ground-breaking 1979 broadcast ushered in the 22-year run of NASCAR on CBS. The 1987 broadcast won the Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Live Sports Special." Ken Squier served as play-by-play announcer from 1979 to 1997. In 1998, former pit reporter Mike Joy was promoted to play-by-play, while Squier moved to the host position.
In 1979, famed television and radio journalist Ken Squier and business partner Tom Curley formed the North Tour sanctioned by NASCAR for Late Model Sportsman-type cars. . Stars of the day included New England drivers Beaver and Bobby Dragon, Dave Dion, and Dick McCabe; Canada’s Jean-Paul Cabana and Claude Leclerc; and invaders Robbie Crouch of Tampa, FL, and Chuck Bown of Portland